• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I remember having a conversation with my conservative boss. He said something stupid about not understanding pronouns and the look on his face when I told him it didn’t matter because the pronouns aren’t for him. If he can’t take a few minutes to understand why someone uses a specific pronoun, it’s better that he just excuses himself from it. He just couldn’t understand why I would exclude him in that way. Like fuck you dude, you bring it up, get upset when you can’t understand and then think it’s all about you. Fuck off.

    • Vincent Adultman@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Would be better if you just started calling him she, they or it. You would probably be fired, but he would get the message. mostly wouldn’t you never know with them people

      • redprog@feddit.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        They’d be fired, and he wouldn’t have got the message. I’m 100% confident on this one

        • xantoxis@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          The boss doesn’t need to get the message. How it works isn’t complicated and I don’t believe that anyone just can’t understand it. That’s not the issue and never has been.

          They just hate trans people.

          • DocCrankenstein@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Bingo. The message isn’t for the boss. It’s for my coworkers who might be hiding their identity because of that boss to know they have someone in their corner.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Love to see it. Not shocked, though.

    For an opposite example, the creator of a niche programming language that is the only one I’m interested in (it’s really great, and I haven’t seen anything that comes close to fitting the same place) said something at-very-least stupid which was the final straw that caused a core developer (nearly co-creator? created the package manager+installer, wrote a book) to quit. And it already had a low bus-factor.

      • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t have been difficult to sleuth using my profile here, but Nim-lang. Specifically because it’s basically an all-in-one, being easy and fast+capable+flexible. Maybe not enough to go by (and I didn’t finish/release it), but some code that I actually wrote (+what it’s loading)

        For further context on the statement by the creator, it was complaining about the “grammar” of singular they. Aside from that being an obvious culture-war BS dogwhistle, the person who quit knew them closely so I don’t think it was an overreaction or misunderstanding.

        @Serdan

        • Serdan@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh, damn. Why do assholes gotta ruin everything?

          I’ve seen Nim before. It looks interesting, and I like the promise of a no-nonsense, performant language. I’m comfortable over here in dotnet land though. 😄

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This is pretty much my stance.

    A whole lot of what the right gets uppity about is none of falls strictly in the ‘none of their fucking business’ category

    A common dog whistle for the right is individual rights and freedoms… Yet they get hung up on things like trans rights which are checks notes individual rights and freedoms

  • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Isn’t this the “woke communist” that runs his company in a shitty way? Overworks employees and stuff? I’m not familiar with the drama is just weird not seeing anything about that in the comments

      • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh cool, I think I’ve always just assumed Torvalds was LTT’s last name bc I didn’t know they were different people lol

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Even though wrong Linus (Torvalds is the Linus who made Linux) I’m glad someone brought that up. Last time I saw LTT he was cozying up with nazis. Last time I heard about him he was being a PR-washing ultralib. He’s been beloved among reactionaries every step of the way.

    • gornius@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I already had a huge respect for him for being really pragmatic, but after this post my respect for him climbed a level above I thought wasn’t even possible.

      And that’s without considering the guy basically made software that runs >99% of modern internet.

  • ohlaph@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    In another life, I delivered a package to Linus and he answered the door in a bathrobe at 1:30 in the afternoon, just got out of the shower. Nice guy.